Evolution from Mummy to Mum - what age?

[MoggyMittens23]

I feel like we are at the point where Mummy is too babyish but Mum feels too grown up!

No other Brummies on this thread then 🤣
I’m mommy to my 2 year old and I say Mommy when I want to ask my Mom for a favour 😂

Moghog 🤣

Mine are early/ mid teens and use mummy (or sometimes mumsy) at home, youngest quite often uses mother. I imagine they use mum if talking to their friends. DH has never stopped using mummy and daddy, which DCs think is silly, so I don’t know why they haven’t changed. Seems a bit late now!

So glad I'm not the only one being called Mother!!

I love this, you dc sounds ace,

@Saschka This made me laugh!

Surely it's up to your children when or if they change. Although when my 15yo laughingly called me mother I did object, she still calls me Mummy sometimes and mum sometimes, my 13yo calls me Mum all the time and I have no idea what my neglected third child calls me. My sister (youngest of 4) started calling DM by her first name when still at primary school because DM had stopped responding to 'Muuuuummm' by that point 😂.

My youngest (22) has never called me mummy, I don't think. I don't remember it if he did.

My eldest (23) calls me mum when he is talking about me but often called me mummy when talking to me until quite recently actually. Maybe the last year or so I've noticed mum is overtaking mummy when we talk.

I've never expressed a preference to them, I just went with the flow.

I call my own mum mothership or mumm-ra unless I'm cross and then it's mother.

For life in NI! Everyone does, conversely it’s only a few posh golfers who use mum here eg ‘yah mum and dad let us use the cottage in Newcastle/portballintraaaaaaaeeeeeeee to get a few rounds in etc etc’

I do sometimes use their first names when trying to get their attention in a shop.

I posted at 8.27 snd forgot about the use of Mammy
MyDad would refer to our mother as Mammy - "Ask Mammy"
My Mum called her Mum "Mom". South west Ireland.

All three (12,11, 6) call us mummy and daddy, but we live abroad, so outside the house they refer to us in another language, and address us in either if their friends are around. What surprises me more is that my parents also refer to us as mummy and daddy if talking to our DCs, eg « you’ll have to check with mummy ». I think I swapped to mum and dad around 9/10.

I was always Mum (or Mama when speaking German) apart from the times DD wrote "I love my mummy" on cards or similar. I think that was more triggered by what she heard at nursery or Reception.

She tried Mother once and I just said "nope, won't answer to this" and the topic was closed.

I noticed that and yet in the Republic only "posh" people would use Mummy.
It's usually Mam, Mum ( or Ma which I personally hate

Mummy is rarely used but Mammy is instead, and often used into adulthood.

But it still doesn't have the weight of the NI 'Mummy'. I love how it's used actually.

Yes, and 'Mom' is common in Kerry too.

My 11yo still calls me Mummy at home, occasionally Mum.

My 8yo calls me Mummy, Lad, or Big Fella 😂😂

I'm called bro by my 9 yr old DD - I blame YouTube 😂

I call my own mum Mother just to piss her off. She was The King of Bellends for a while too, which my late nan gleefully adopted!

If I'm being nice, she's Mum or Mamaleh.

My just 3yr old says both. As does 4 yr old.
But they call dh dad not daddy.
Always have not sure why

My DS started calling me mum when he was 3! Still mummy if he wakes up in the night and needs me, but mum in all other situations.

@autienotnaughty 9 and 10, so a bit older than yours. It feels odd either way, I don't think I am ready to be mum yet and they don't want to call me mum either, but then mummy also doesn't feel right!

I get that too or Mush

My adult son still calls me mummy, my SIL calls my MIL mummy and she's in her 70s! I think it is either a natural change or not, I've never pressed my DC to call me mum.

What's the problem with Mum?

Reading this it seems people are sad when mummy changes to mum. Apart from regional differences where I can see how mommy, mam etc are the norm, why the issue with Mum?

My ds is just turned 3. He suddenly has shifted from mmmy and daddy to mum and dad. I want to still be mummy!!!! How did he even learn the short versions… pah.

I was "mum" from about the age of 6 or 7, I'm occasionally "mummy" now (he's 18) but this coincides with a request for money or lifts (or both!)

By contrast, DH has always been and remains "papa" - it is by turns sweet and unbearably wanky as we have no foreign ancestry whatsoever. I always think it makes us sound like we're pretending we're from "good stock", or hopelessly pretentious social climbers 😆

I used to be mama but my darling only daughter is 13 now and I’m mum but if she wants to be annoying and naughty then she will call me by my name just to get a reaction.😳😳😳😳